Cadillac's anti-male TV ad "khakis" and the recent controversy over it (see Cadillac Thinks Humiliating Men Is Great Revenge--and Adweek Agrees and As Usual, Feminist Blogger Amanda Marcotte and Her Followers Are a Lot Smarter Than Me...) reminded me of my blog post "When Boys Fall Behind in School, Is It 'Breaking Male Dominance'?"
In the...
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As annoying as the many Father's Day week father-bashing articles were, there were also some positive stories about dads, and those bear mentioning, too. We've put together five of them below--if you saw other ones, feel free to send me them and perhaps we'll do a "Father Positive Articles for Father's Day Part II"...
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More than 5.5 billion pounds of explosives are used each year in the United States by private sector companies and government entities. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has the federal authority to regulate explosives and to license privately owned explosives storage facilities. After a July 2004 theft of several hundred pounds...
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Paul Krugman confesses his love for Big Brother. Previous postings (Part One; Part Two; Part Three) discussed aspects of Paul Krugman’s essay “Who Was Milton Friedman?” in the New York Review of Books. Mr. Krugman is a political propaganda columnist for the New York Times, where predictably he is a strident critic of individuals’...
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Gender Population Distribution v. Traits: Why there are twice as many men as women with IQs above 120 and 30 times as many over170.
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Background: A couple weeks ago I asked you to write newspapers in protest of Berkeley Breathed's new nationally-syndicated OPUS cartoon "Davie Dinkle has two moms" which, I noted "gives fathers a nice kick in the teeth Father's Day week."
In the comic, which appeared in many of America's largest newspapers, two elementary school boys discuss a...
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The European Space Agency is looking for twelve volunteers for a simulated trip to Mars that will take place in Moscow.
You’d better apply soon (application here), as over 2,000 applications have already been submitted to project manager Jennifer Ngo-Anh, whose surname just happens to be the exact sound that you’ll make while pulling 9...
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There is a lot of speculation in the media these days about coup attempts and other ficticious plots to overthow the thug regime of Robert Mugabe. The truth is that these so-called coup attempts are all to do with deep paranioa within the ruling zanupf regime. Mugabe is attempting to achieve two objectives. Firstly,...
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution recently ran an editorial noting that Georgia has a lower high school graduation rate than other states and labeled it a “crisis†because those with limited educations are “poorly equipped to compete for the high-skilled, knowledge-driven jobs.†However, perhaps part of the problem lies in the entire concept of the “dropout.â€Â...
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